Back at the studio

Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Back at spode, Black and white, Canvas, no colours yet, Painting, Work in progressLeave a comment

Well, I’ve finally got back to my studio at spode! I started a small painting of a bottle oven, I think it’s going to have a Van Gogh style sky. I need to start getting some work done for a possible exhibition later in the year. I want to do work about the area, but with a bit of a twist. This is a canvas about two foot by eight inches? It will be acrylic on canvas once I’ve painted in the mortar for the brick work I will add colourful bricks. The sky will swirl with clouds and stars and there may be vegitation or a bit of foliage.

Who’s it going to be?

Posted on May 5, 2021May 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic sketch, Acrylics, Art, female favce, Fun, Mystery Plays, who is it?, Work in progress2 Comments

I’m doing a painting on line, live, next week. I offered to do it for our mystery plays virtual performance next week. Its only going to have a small audience because we can’t have a big group on zoom. I’ve been watching Bob Ross programmes and I’ve always done paintings quickly but I think I’ve bit off more than I can chew!

Anyway I’m going to have just over an hour to get this finished, and better still they want me to start from scratch and if it’s OK they will raffle it off… Wish me luck!

Digital drawing WIP

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitsl draeing, Drawing, Random objects, Sketching, Still life, Stylus, Wacom, Work in progressLeave a comment

Trying to draw on the computer using my Wacom tablet. It’s hard because I usually doodle with a finger on my phone or with a stylus on a tablet. I actually find this harder to do, and I need practice. This is for a #bandofsketchers prompt for today. If I get it done I will post it here. Back to work…

Cat work in progress

Posted on November 21, 2020 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Cat portrait, Facebook memory, Female art, Fine Art, Gold leaf, Painting, Work in progressLeave a comment

Looking through my photos of small paintings with gold leaf, I found this of my girl cat. I think I was about half way through this painting. I used the gold leaf to emphasise her eyes and the cushion behind her. I know I have a bit left over. I was not very good at attaching the gold leaf, its hard to stop it wrinkling and breaking up, but I would say its fun to use and have a go if you fancy it.

Goldfish WIP

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Experiment, Gold leaf, Goldfish, Painting, Water, Work in progressLeave a comment

This wasn’t finished when I took a photo of it. I refined the water surface which was not delicate enough. I also did more to the fish, but I can’t find a photo of the finished piece. It was another small painting, acrylic on canvas with gold leaf. I did sell it at a craft fair at Spode.

Trying to design an enamel brooch

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Brooch, Design, Digital drawings, Doodling, Enamel, Enamel kiln, Life, Playing, Spotted dragon, Stick pin, Work in progressLeave a comment

Work in progress. Digital drawings of a ‘spotted draon’. I’m thinking of doing something like this for a course project. I thought I’d try and do some working out. It I wanted to make it I would have to learn enamelling techniques and get a kiln to fire it in. But then I would have to cost it and see if its feasible. Or maybe I can design it and then get someone to make it for me? I don’t know. I have a friend who does fused glass, maybe she could help. Life is interesting….

How to depict cuts in arts education?

Posted on July 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Idea, Illustration, Important, Learning, Life, Picture, Schooling, Sketching, Teaching, Work in progressLeave a comment

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I thought I would try and share my idea about possible cuts in art education. It’s along the lines of the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil images. In this case the image is of a school child. Maybe with one eye peeping out. Covering his head are the hands of other children, stopping him seeing art equipment, or hearing music or poetry. Stopping him speaking things like lines from plays or novels.

Art and creativity are so important to the world. Maybe you can push a button and get a car design? Maybe not. At the moment it still takes the efforts of designers, artists, illustrators, musicians, and much more to bring out the creativity of the world.

What are we doing if we consider removing Art from the curriculum? If we make it just the perogative of the rich? What happens if normal, ordinary people aren’t taught to have a critical eye, to have the ability to see beauty. I see a world which is almost turning into a 1984 situation. Dumbed down and quiescent?

Almost finished Lobster

Posted on July 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Commission, Lobster, Painting, Picture, Water, Work in progressLeave a comment

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Work in progress, about A4 size, acrylic on canvas. I’ve got to work on the background. It’s now a commission as someone saw the start of it and liked it. I’m not sharing this on my Facebook page because I want it to be a surprise. I don’t think I will do a lot more to it. I want to resolve the head though. The photo I’m working from has a lot of dark rock and patterns around its head and its hard to see what’s happening. That’s why a lot of the surface is on is light so the lobster stands out a bit more.

I’m trying to make it look like it’s almost floating. I might add some light and dark bands, like ripples of light and shade being reflected down from the surface.

Another WIP

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Birds, Blue, Green, Iridescent, Kingfisher, Nature, Orange, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

After finishing my ‘green people’ I’m about to start work again on this kingfisher painting. I intend to try and leave the background quite blurred and try and get a lot of detail into the Kingfisher. They really are the most beautiful of birds, with iridescent plumage. It’s acrylic on canvas as usual. About 10 x 14 inches? Maybe slightly bigger than that. Might do some more to it today.

I think you can see these down on the river Trent, although I don’t know if there is too much fish there for them.

Got to start painting again

Posted on February 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Humour, Imagination, Life, Painting, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

_20200219_130113 this is a self portrait I started last year, but haven’t finished. So where best to start when you have been a bit blocked, than to work on something like this.

I want to do a series of ‘green’ portraits. The idea being that I can make a different image that is striking and interesting. Although there is a basic structure done on this I may make a lot of changes. Its definitely a work in progress.

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